2024 Olympics: Simone Biles, Team USA strike gold Tuesday - ESPN
Tuesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics brought a return to action for a handful of Team USA's top names.
Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey's «redemption tour» is complete after they earned gold in the women's gymnastics team final. Coco Gauff fell to Donna Vekic in the women's singles third round. She paired up with Taylor Fritz in the mixed doubles first round and won. Katie Ledecky swam her way to advancing in the women's 1500m freestyle. The Olympic men's soccer team advanced to the quarterfinals of an Olympics for the first time since Sydney.
Alongside Gauff and Fritz, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz won their second men's doubles match at Roland Garros, and Andy Murray was victorious again in doubles.
Here's what you might have missed Tuesday.
Andy Murray is refusing to retire just yet.
Murray and his Team GB playing partner, Dan Evans, edged another match tiebreak victory at Roland Garros, this time saving two match points before winning.
This Olympic goodbye means so much to Murray. After Evans delivered the decisive overhead smash, the British pair were overcome with joy as they jumped up and down, hugged and threw fist pumps toward the roaring crowd.
They are one win from guaranteeing at least a bronze medal match. They couldn't… could they? — Connor O'Halloran
The British repeated gold in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay. But with a silver medal, the American men — Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler and Kiernan Smith — found redemption. In Tokyo, this event was the only relay in which Team USA did not earn a medal. The Americans fended off a decent push from Australia in the final leg, and the Aussies took home bronze.
That concluded the swimming events for Tuesday, yet another day in